Jim O'Brien of The Connecticut Group has Kelli Emerick, Founder and President of 121 Strategies & Government Relations, on to discuss her firm's efforts to reduce fraud and identity theft. Emerick, who is also Executive Director of the Secure ID Coalition, has 12 years of experience in tech and a background in online child safety, identity management, information sharing, e-commerce, and privacy. Listen below:
The Connecticut General Assembly's website (cga.ct.gov) came back up for public use around 7:30 p.m. on Monday after having been down since Sunday. The site's firewall went offline for an unknown reason. Information technology specialists worked through the day Monday to get it back up and running. A specialist told CTNewsJunkie that the internal site was still working throughout the outage on the public-facing portion of the website, but they were focused on diagnosing the problem with the...
HARTFORD, CT – Liz Connelly has joined Capitol Consulting LLC as a Government Relations Associate/Lobbyist. Connelly was on staff in the Connecticut General Assembly for more than six years, most recently as the Senior Legislative and Communications Advisor to Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz. Connelly brings to the firm a wide bipartisan network of contacts within the General Assembly, state agencies, and various advocacy organizations. "Liz’s strong work ethic and a clear understanding...
Rome Smith & Lutz has promoted Chris Smith to partner and also added John Harkins to the firm, providing RSL with deep connections on both sides of the aisle. Both Smith and Harkins "have been fixtures in CT government, politics and lobbying for over 40 years combined, and we are excited to have both of them assuming new roles and lending their expertise, expansive relationships, and strategic acumen to Rome Smith & Lutz," RSL said in a release. Smith is the former Director of Policy...
Kevin B. Spinella – who this week joined Gaffney, Bennett & Associates – started as a legislative aid for the House Democrats in 2010 and over the past 10 years became one of the key sausage-makers at the General Assembly in Hartford. Spinella worked his way up to senior policy analyst to House Speakers Brendan Sharkey and Sharkey's successor, current Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, playing a key role researching and helping to analyze policy and programs as...